Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Foreign Cinema: 441 Films to Buy & Rent
Dead Sushi (2012)
- Dir. Noboru Iguchi
Feat. Rina Takeda
- An innkeeper proficient in both karate and sushi making must fend off a hoard of flesh–eating California Rolls after one of her guests injects…
Le Chef (Comme un chef) (2012)
- Dir. Daniel Cohen
Feat. Jean Reno, Michael Youn, Santiago Segura…
- Tangy French comedy, with Jean Reno as a pretentious culinary master whose renowned restaurant is threatened by a young chef specializing in…
Le Grand Soir (2012)
- Dir. Benoit Delepine, Gustave de Kervern
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde, Albert Dupontel, Yolande Moreau…
- A wrinkling middle–aged punk and his soon–to–be–unemployed middle–class brother attempt to spark a cultural revolution…
Paris-Manhattan (2012)
- Dir. Sophie Lellouche
Feat. Alice Taglioni, Patrick Bruel
- A Woody Allen–obsessed pharmacist employs the philosophies of her nebbish movie hero in life and in love. Typically, inconsequentially French,…
Vulgaria (2012)
- Dir. Pang Ho-Cheung
Feat. Chapman To, Dada Chan, Suet Lam
- Amusingly scattershot showbiz satire of a struggling film producer who turns to making pornography under the financing of a twisted triad…
A Happy Event (Un Heureux Evenement) (2011)
- Dir. Rémi Bezançon
Feat. Louise Bourgoin, Pio Marmaï, Josiane Balasko…
- Keenly felt depiction of the baby blues as a young couple struggle to come to grips with parenthood.
Ages of Love (Manual of Love 3) (2011)
- Dir. Giovanni Veronesi
Feat. Robert De Niro, Monica Bellucci, Riccardo Scamarcio…
- Third installment in the fluffy romantic series has benefits from the presence of De Niro as a visiting professor seduced by his neighbour's…
And If We All Lived Together (2011)
- Dir. Stéphane Robelin
Feat. Guy Bedos, Daniel Brühl, Geraldine Chaplin…
- Five 70–something friends resolve to move in together when faced with life in a retirement home, much to the fascination of a ethnology student…
Art of Love, The (2011)
- Dir. Emmanuel Mouret
Feat. Emmanuel Mouret, Pascale Arbillot, Ariane Ascaride…
- The French try their hand at the ensemble romantic comedy with this episodic insight into the dramas, dilemmas, and delights of love between a cast…
Chinese Takeaway (2011)
- Dir. Sebastian Borensztein
Feat. Ricardo Darín, Muriel Santa Ana, Ignacio Huang…
- Wry comedy of clashing cultures centres on an unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly hardware store–owner and a young immigrant.